James Bulger’s mother describes final hours before her son’s abduction

James Bugler’s mother Denise Fergus has opened up on her final hours before her young son’s abduction in a new book.

The tormented mother has revealed that she watched grainy CCTV footage which shows the exact moment that the toddler was kidnapped.

Heartbreakingly, Denise thought her son would still be alive because he had been taken by children.

Describing the ‘nightmare that followed’ goes on to describe how her young son’s body was found two days later along a railway track after he had been violently assaulted by two ten-year-old boys.

Denise Fergus. Pic: REX

Speaking to the Sunday People she said: ‘When I gave birth to my baby I was full of hopes and dreams for him. But the one thing I didn’t ever imagine was burying my son’s tiny body after his murder.

‘No parent wants to outlive their child or say goodbye – it’s impossible to imagine – but my final hours and minutes with my beautiful James will be forever etched in my mind until my dying day.’

The incident occurred in February 1993 when Denise went into a butcher’s shop in a Mereyside shopping centre and momentarily let go of James’ hand to take her purse out of her bag.

She never saw the two-year-old again.

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Two ten-year-old boys Jon Venables ad Robert Thompson then lead him on a long walk, two and a half miles away from the village to a railway track where they began a horrific assault.

In the court case it was revealed that the young boys began attacking the toddler by throwing batteries and tins of paint at him. They then threw stones, bricks and kicked and stamped on the two-year-old before dropping a heavy bar on top of him.

James before his disappearance. Pic: PA

They then covered his body in bricks on the train tracks meaning that the first train to approach tore his body in half.

In her book ‘I Let Him Go’, Ms Fergus speaks ‘unflinchingly’ about the morning of the abduction and the nightmare that followed.